You might be thinking that you haven't heard from Ripperton for a while and you'd be right. As Ripperton has been redesigning: Ripperton, mostly as Headless Ghost, Compost Records have put Joy Frempong with him to get some 'Sirens' to playout.
You'll recall Ripperton (aka DJ/producer Raphaël Gros from Laussane, Switzerland) is known as a innovator in the electronic music having launched labels like Perspectiv Records, and Tamed musiq, releasing music on leading underground imprints including Innervisions, Border Community or Planet E. Although, I'd say it was his extended/minimal remix work that made his name, out of the hundred's he's done, particularly Beanfield ('Tides'), Laurent Garnier and Radiohead (it seems like Gerry Hectic's 'Nude' edit has been deleted from Soundcloud!).
Knowing Joy Frempong from OY, having remixed Laundry with 'Modern Jealousy' in 2012, her Afrofuturist dispora Avant-pop poetry/storytelling is perfect for a Ripperton collaboration. Like a a antidote/counter point of Anthony Joseph's recent album, 'The Ark' (see review HERE).
In fact, 'Sirens' has been "in the making" since that remix and like other sirens (see HERE) you always hear the sirens; in this case in four versions original, clouds, melodydreamer and instrumental.
Sounding more choral than subterreanan this is tipical minimal with electronic soul and you can tell from the instrumental version how Frempong has elevated the song into "something haunting and profoundly human".
It's a grower with the gentle guitar being swept by waves and the gothic organ calling from Whitby churches. Not everyone's cup of tea by great to see/hear Ripperton with us once again.
BUY LINK / PRE-ORDER: https://CompostRecords.lnk.to/RippertonXJoyFrempong-Sirens
Artist: Ripperton & Joy Frempong
Title: Sirens EP
Release date: 15th May, 2026
Label: Compost Records
Cat. No: CPT 671-3
Format: Digital
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